• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.359-367
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• 2015

Purpose: This article summarizes the trends in recent research publications in relation to post-harvest technology for drying, storage, and quality, between 2005 and 2015. Methods: As of S eptember 7, 2015, a s earch query using two keywords, drying and agriculture, on the Web of Science (Registered trademark of Thomson Reuters) resulted in 3749 articles that were published between 2005 and 2015. However, the review was restricted to research articles published in the journals Transactions of the ASABE (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers) and Biosystems Engineering: Journal of European Agricultural Engineering. Results: The total number of articles in the two journals related to drying, storage, and quality was 500, 319, and 885, respectively. The number of articles related to drying, storage, and quality was 250, 177, and 250, respectively, in Transactions of the ASABE. The number of articles related to drying, storage, and quality was 250, 142, and 283, respectively, in Biosystems Engineering. Conclusions: A shift in research focus from drying and storage to quality in Transactions of the ASABE might reflect a shift toward quality-conscious consumers. It seems that ASABE members are more focused on articles related to post-harvest technologies on quality than their European counterparts. Articles were cited based on their abstract content. Readers should read the full articles for more details.

• Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.115-132
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• 2011

Prior research in medical service field have mainly focused on service quality, satisfaction, and choice attributes of hospital. However, a little research has been done on "Which service quality attributes are more preferred by customer motivation(customer regulatory focus)". This study examines how regulatory focus affects the structural impact relationships of service quality and emotion(quiescence) on perceived value in medical service context. Especially, this research draws the moderating effects of regulatory focus between medical service quality, emotion, and perceived value. The Results were summarized as follows: The relative impacts of medical service quality on customer emotion are different depending upon the regulatory focus. Hospital reputation is shown to be more important factors in prevention-oriented customer, while physical environment is the case in promotion-oriented customer. The relative impacts of medical service quality and emotion on perceived value are different depending upon the regulatory focus. Hospital reputation, convenience, and accessibility are shown to be more important factors in promotion-oriented customer, while physical environment is more important in prevention-oriented customer. Also, emotion has a positive influence on perceived value in prevention-oriented customer, whereas the effect of emotion is not significant in promotion-oriented customer.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.443-456
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• 2013

Purpose: Recently, many quality issues are aroused in military forces, such as failures in K-series weapons, combat boots defects and 40mm ammunition explosion accident. To address these problems, this paper suggests to use so called, Defense Quality Score, which is based on Taguchi loss function and developed in this research. Methods: Current defense specification states only the minimum requirement to produce the military supplies. Therefore, it is not easy to indue the continuous quality improvement of the supplies. This research suggests to use the defense quality score which measures the current status of defense supplies'quality characteristics. Results: We applied the defense quality score concept into the hot pepper sauce and long time stockpiled ammunition. We first categorize the quality characteristics into three categories, then assign the certain amount of score based on the importance of the characteristics. Lastly, we applied the modified Taguchi loss function to calculate the achieved score of the characteristics. The perfect score is 100 and the closer to the score, the better product it indicates. Conclusions: In this research, we developed the modified Taguchi loss function to apply into the korean defense supplies. The loss function is utilized to calculate the achieved level of satisfaction of the supplies based on the defense specifications. The application of defense quality score may help to stimulate the continuous quality improvement and encourage the good will quality competition among the military providers.

• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.25-38
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• 2018

Purpose - This study aimed to identify the sub-dimensions of fashion social media quality (information quality, social quality, service quality, system quality) and investigate how they affect purchase intention through fashion information use behavior (information acceptance, information diffusion). Research design, data, and methodology - Data collection was carried out twice for systematic verification of the research model. In the first data collection, the reliability and validity of research variables were verified through 238 respondents and questionnaires were revised and supplemented based on their responses. In March 2018, the final survey was conducted from 755 respondents the age of 20 to 49. Using SPSS 23.0, descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis were performed. In order to test hypotheses, structural equational modeling technique was employed using AMOS 23.0. Results - First of all, fashion Social media quality consists of four factors including information quality, social quality, service quality and system quality. Second, fashion Social media information quality, social quality, and system quality were shown to have a positive(+) effect on information acceptance behavior, and social quality, service quality and system quality were shown to have a positive(+) effect on information diffusion behavior. It was also determined that the acceptance and diffusion behaviors of fashion information through fashion Social media had positive(+) influence on purchase intention. Conclusions - This study holds academic significance in its identification of the components of fashion Social media quality and for conducting an empirical analysis on the causal relationship between fashion information acceptance and diffusion behaviors, and purchase intention. The results of this study indicate that fashion involvement is the key factors in determining the quality of Social media, the acceptance of information through Social media, and, by extension, the purchase of fashion products. Practitioners in the fashion industry may use the findings of this study in order to build more effective Social media strategy.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.23-39
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• 2004

This paper focused on empirically testing the ESM(Electronic-Store Success Model). The model was developed by basing upon the ‘Updated D&M(DeLone and McLean) IS Success Model(2003)’ and reflecting the characteristics of marketing and e-business, and composed of the six dimensions including system quality, information quality, service quality, trust, customer loyalty and financial performance. The research model consisting of five dimensions, excluding financial performance, was proposed and empirically verified by structural equation model with respect to data from 224 customers on 69 Electronic-Stores. The results show that system quality and information quality significantly influence service quality, and that service quality also significantly influence trust and customer loyalty, and that trust has significant influence on customer loyalty.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.75-89
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• 1999

The importance of service quality in any service industry cannot be disputed. Shippers have increased expectations concerning the quality of shipping service they receive and carriers are struggling to meet these expectations. This struggle between shipper and carriers would suggest that there is room to improve much more understandings of how shipper define shipping service quality in the carriers' perspectives. This is an empirical investigation and study on the measurement of customer response and service quality as perceived by customer in the international transportation logistics system. The purpose of this study is to clarify factors of shipping service quality on the basis of service marketing concept. In order to fulfill the objectives, this paper combined research tools that include both empirical study and documentary research. Data was gathered from 132 freight forwarder by the use of questionnaire. In this study, the established hypotheses were generated on the basis of the service quality evaluation model(SERVQUAL, SERVPERF, and EP) and Gap model.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.27-36
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• 2003

The purpose of this research is to analyze the residential environment based on the physical quality indicators in apartment housing through the case study of 36 housing estate samples which were built in 1994-1998. The contents of this research consists of two main parts. The first part is to select the quality indicators based on the residential satisfaction of dwellers. The second part is to analyze the residential environment based on the selected quality indicators in apartment housing. This research will contribute to the establishment of the site planning methods which increase the quality of residential environment in apartment housing.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.71-85
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• 2016

Service channel environments have changed dramatically with the advent of new, online digital channels. This article studies the effects of perceived multi-channel service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty in the banking industry and the moderating role of age, which is a characteristic of customers. The objective is to identify the quality factors that affect the overall satisfaction and loyalty of a multi-channel customer. A quantitative study was conducted on 900 customers, with the main targets being users of the nine primary Korean retail banks. Results show that perceived service quality of the physical environment, human service, Internet banking, mobile banking, and ATM has a positive influence on overall satisfaction and loyalty. Age moderates the relationship among physical environment quality, human service, and customer loyalty.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.360-367
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• 2005

We have performed to analyze the trophic state resulting of Lake Yongdam as a result of water quality and nutrient concentration. Lake Yongdam is artifitial multi-purpose Dam resulting from the floods of 2001. The water quality of Lake Yongdam may affect the status of the Geum river basin including the Daecheong reservoir. It is necessary to understand the trophic state to assess water quality until stability after flooding. Water quality was surveyed using depth and hydraulic condition analysis. Further density flow was estimated for stratification and trophic state of Lake Yongdam by chlorophyll ${\alpha}$ concentration (2001~2004). And Environmental factors on chlorophyll ${\alpha}$ concentration were analyzed statistically. Trophic state was evaluated as the oligotrophic state at the main stream of the reservoir and eutrophic state at the upper stream in 2001, but evaluated as eutrophic state in 2002 and 2003 by TSI of Aizaki. From the results of multiple regression analysis using stepwise method, chlorophyll ${\alpha}$ concentration was shown to be very significant when nutrient concentration is high upon initial filling of the Dam. Chlorophyll ${\alpha}$ concentration varied according to sample site, season and year. Concentration were high in the upper stream of Lake Yongdam 4, algae bloom in these watershed were affected by location and high nutrient levels in the summer season which have in turn increased phytoplankton bloom into the reservoir.

• Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.33-41
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• 2008

The main entrance is even disappeared nowadays when the component type is changed, because it loses the actual function. On the other hand, the type of main entrance is changed variously depended on the materials for house and method of construction. Eleven points in the Chungyang-Gun where the environment of rural villages is well maintained was choosed researched to make data. These data of visual component elements were analysed by using the SPSS 12.0 Windows. Cluster Analysis and Factor Analysis was performed to analyze the different types of main entrance in the rural villages. From the above research, we could conclude below results. Research result, The whole quality of the farming village gate with fine feeling and constant temperature characteristic order appeared with the fact that preference quality is highest, in afterwords was analyzed. Also the research which sees led and the result which appears from the landscape quality analysis which the residential gates are general and type by landscape quality analysis the result which appears with the comparative analysis overcomes the limit which the residential gates are general and type by landscape quality analysis the result which appears with the comparative analysis overcomes the limit which the abstractive landscape image has. Like this research result judges currently the research which is meaning which provides a planning standards and the guideline which the governmental department and the rural village improvement enterprising public opinion rural village residential enterprise which is propelling from oneself are detailed. Specially about landscape quality of the residential gate that presents a type classification and preference quality from the actual condition where the research is insufficient the hereafter rural village improvement enterprise specially, sees with the fact that will be the possibility of affecting is meaning to residential section the succeeding researches actively, there being could be advanced, wishes.